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There is not on the face of the earth a man more beloved to me than 'Umar.
(Abu bakr)Someone said to Abu Bakr during his (last) illness, 'What will you say to your Lord, when you have appointed 'Umar?' He said, 'I will say to Him, "I have appointed over them the best of them
(Abu Bakr)
**When the right-acting ones are mentioned then begin with 'Umar. We did not think it unlikely that as-Sakinah (the Divine Presence) spoke with the tongue of 'Umar.*
( Ali , the lion of God)
**I have never seen anyone after the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, from the time he died, more perceptive and more liberally generous than 'Umar.*
(Ibne Umar)
**Even if the knowledge of 'Umar were to be put in one scale of a balance and the knowledge of every living being on the earth were put in the other scale, the knowledge of 'Umar would outweigh their knowledge. They used to hold the view that he had gone (i.e. died) with nine-tenths of knowledge.*
(Abdullah Ibne Masood)
**It is as if the knowledge of mankind was concealed in the understanding of 'Umar.*
(Hudhayfah)
**By Allah, I do not know a man whom the blame of the one who blames, for the sake of Allah, does not overcome, except for 'Umar.*
(Hudhayfah)
*** Umar'He was, by Allah, skilful in managing affairs, absolutely unique**
(Aisha)
**As for Abu Bakr, he did not want the world and it did not want him. As for 'Umar, the world wanted him but he did not want it. As for us, we have rolled over in it (like an animal in the dust).*
(Muaviyyah)
**Ali entered upon 'Umarand he was shroudedand said, 'The mercy of Allah upon you! There is no-one I would prefer to meet Allah with that which is in his page (the record of his actions), after the companionship of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, than this shrouded one.*
(Jabir bin Abdullah)
*** When the right-acting ones are remembered, then begin with 'Umar. Truly 'Umar was the most knowledgeable of us of the Book of Allah, and the most understanding (literally: having the most fiqh) of us of the deen of Allah, exalted is He.**
*(Abdullah ibne Masood) *
Abu Bakr was the good, all of it.' *
**Umar was like the apprehensive bird which thinks that on every path there is a snare to catch it.
Ali and he said, 'He was full of resolve, sound judgement, knowledge and valour....
(Abdullah ibne Abbas)
*** Umar ibn al-Khattab said to Ka'b al-Ahbar, 'How do you find my description?' He said, 'I find your description to be a horn of iron.' He asked, 'What is a horn of iron?' He said, 'A strong commander who, for the sake of Allah, the censure of the one who blames does not overcome.' He said, 'Then what?' He said, 'There will be after you a khalifah whom a wrong-doing group will kill.' He said, 'Then what?' He said, 'Then there will be the trial (affliction).**
('Umayr ibn Rabi'ah)
*** Umar ibn al-Khattab excelled people in four: the affair of the prisoners on the Day of Badr, he ordered that they should be killed and Allah revealed, 'If it were not for a decree of Allah which had preceded ...' (Qur'an 8: 68) to the end of the ayah; and in the matter of the hijab, he ordered the women of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, to veil themselves, so Zaynab said to him, 'And really you are responsible over us Ibn al-Khattab, and the revelation descends upon us in our houses?' So Allah revealed, 'Then if you ask them for some item ...' (Qur'an 33: 53) to the end of the ayah; and by the supplication of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, 'O Allah, help Islam with 'Umar'; and in his view of Abu Bakr, for he was the first one to pledge allegiance to him.**
(Abdullah ibne Masood)
We used to say that the shaytans were chained and shackled during the amirate of 'Umar, then when he was struck they spread abroad.
(Mujahid)
**News of 'Umar was slow in reaching Abu Musa so he went to a woman who had a shaytan in her, and asked her about him. She said, 'Wait until my shaytan comes to me.' Then he came and she asked him about him. He said, 'I left him dressed with a piece of cloth as a waist-wrapper, smearing the camels of the sadaqah (of the zakah) with tar (against the mange or scab). And that is a man whom a shaytan does not see but that he falls flat on his nostrils; the angel is between his two eyes and the Ruh al-Quds (Jibril) speaks with his tongue*
(Salim ibn 'Abdullah)
**Whoever claimed that 'Ali had more right to authority than Abu Bakr and 'Umar has made a mistake and has accused Abu Bakr, 'Umar and all the Muhajirun and the Ansar of making a mistake.*
(Sufyan ath-Thawri )
**No-one in whom there is any good advances 'Ali before Abu Bakr and 'Umar.*
(Sharik)
**Do you grasp who Abu Bakr and 'Umar were? They were the father and mother of Islam.*
(Abu Usama)
**I am quit of whoever mentions Abu Bakr and 'Umar with anything but good.*
(Imam Jaffar Sadiq)